PELARGONIUM lanosum.
Wool-bearing Stork's-bill.
P. lanosum, villoso-pilosum, foliis cordatis acutis planis
aut subreflexis villoso-tomentosis mollissimis argute
cartilagineo-dentatis dentibus majoribus reflexis:
superioribus subtrilobis cuneatisve, stipulis ovato-
lanceolatis longe acuminatis, umbellis plurifloris,
tubo nectarifero calyce subaequali, stylo ad medium
hirsuto.
Stem strong, frutescent, erect, not much branched : branches somewhat flexuose, thickly clothed with long,
soft, woolly hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles, brac-
tes, and calyx. Leaves heart-shaped, acute, flat, or the
points and sides recurved a little, densely clothed with
soft woolly hairs, which makes them very soft to the
touch, deeply and sharply toothed, the teeth rigid and
cartilaginous, the largest hooked downwards or reflexed,
underneath strongly and numerously nerved,
the nerves branched : upper leaves somewhat 3-lobed,
those amongst the flowers cuneate, and attenuated towards
the base. Petioles flattened on the upper side
and convex below. Stipules lanceolate, or ovately lanceolate,
tapering to a long slender point. Umbels 4 or
5-flowered. Peduncles nearly cylindrical, sometimes a
little flattened, swollen and somewhat transparent at
the base. Involucre of 6 or 7 lanceolate, acute, villous
bractes. Pedicles about the length of the bractes. Calyx
5-cleft, of a purplish brown; the segments very
long, lanceolate, tapering to a long slender point, keeled,
the points somewhat reflexed, the upper one rather
broadest and three-nerved. Nectariferous tube about the
length of the calyx, much flattened on each side, and